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[C] Daddy's Back

"Yeah? Well, I say hello back. How's he been?" Aodh's gaze turned up to his brother who was also talking avidly on the phone to Zakhar and he motioned to the back of the café as he stood up. He'd still not found the courage to tell Coilean about Darragh.

He didn't know how Lean would react to it. Coilean was adamant about staying out of humans lives and Darragh was as good as human and probably would be for a great many years; possibly his entire life if he didnt turn.

"We can try, s'pose. Don't know if it'll work, though," he warned as he took a seat at one of the empty tables.

He felt shit for not being home. He had desperately wanted to curl up with his two favourite boys and spend the evening doing nothing but enjoying their company. It looked like that, unfortunately, wasn't going to be happening soon.

Darragh sat up a little as he grasped the phone, smiling a little as his father came into view.

Aeker chuckled while the two of them argued, Aodh might not have been able to make it home but it still made Darragh happy to talk to him and see him.

The vampire smiled, toying with the ring on his finger as he looked down at it fondly.

"Your Daddy was very sneaky when he gave this to me, I was running around for hours trying to find him."

It had been a beautiful journey.

"Darragh war besorgt, dass Sie nicht mehr nach Hause."

The Vampire muttered softly, pressing a soft kiss to the top of the boy's head. A child's logic was flawed but could make sense in their mind________________Darragh was worried that you didn't want to come home.

Darragh was horrified at the very thought of Aeker being considered boring. The Vampire was a lot of fun. He always made things fun to do.

Aodh's gaze flickered up when he saw Coilean get up from the table and head towards the bathrooms. He gave an amused little hum. "I think little bro's conversations were a little too much for him. Means we can talk a little less hush hush now, though."

He wasn't a violent man, he tried to find a peaceful way to solve any issue but if someone tried to lay a hand on Darragh with ill intent he would slaughter them where they stood.

That included Coilean, it didn't matter if the Lycan was older and stronger than him, he would risk his own life before allowing the boy to be harmed.

"It doesn't matter if he can't change, Darragh is still half Lycan, he is your son after all."

And it was that exact reason that if Darragh did prove to be mortal that they couldn't do anything about it, the boy had Lycan in him, even if they wanted to, it could prove impossible to change him into either a turned lycan or a vampire.

"We'll have to talk to them about it soon. We'll go over it properly when I get home."

Aodh nodded, his soft silver gaze falling on his pup again.

"Poor kid has to go through so much. I wish I could give him a normal life instead of this." He wanted the kid to grow up happy and normal like any other kid his age. Poor thing was being dragged through the wringer.

"I can't wait to be home, either. Russia is feral. Even worse than those mountains yo used to live on. Not a great place to be. Hated every moment of being back there again."

"I love you too, Aodh O'Ceallaigh, I love you both more than anything in this world."

Aeker had accepted Darragh as his own rapidly, the two of them clicked quickly and had bonded.

"He isn't normal Aodh, and neither are we, we can't give him a 'normal life' it is entirely impossible.

However I will tell you this, and you will listen to me for once in your life. We can give him something so much better than normal, this boy will never want for anything, he will never have to doubt whether or not his parents care about him. We can give him so much more than anyone else so don't you ever doubt whether we are doing the right thing for him, don't doubt yourself as a father because this boy loves you more than you know and I know that he doesn't want anything else than to be able to see you everyday."